Nobody Cares about Britain

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Guardian -- Trump talks ‘complete nonsense’ about crime in London, says Met police commissioner – UK politics live

It really isn't normal for heads of government or state to start complaining about how the capital cities of other countries are run, and particularly not for them simply to repeat nonsense they've seen on social media and for the chief of police of the city in question to have to tell them it's all rubbish.

London -- electing left of centre social democratic Muslim mayors before it was cool.

The bit about sharia courts is an ancient red herring -- like Jewish rabbinical courts (Beth Din) they are community religious tribunals dealing with religious questions and some civil matters, including divorce, marriage and inheritance. Participation is voluntary and their rulings don't have any legal force. They're a form of voluntary arbitration, in other words. If a Muslim couple want a divorce, they still need to ask the regular civil courts for one. If they also want the marriage dissolved in the eyes of their religious community, they have to ask a Sharia court to do that.

They can't, though, override a civil court's decision -- if a Muslim wants to dispute their late relative's will because it's contrary to Islamic inheritance law, or their former spouse's offer of family support because it's contrary to Islamic family law, then it's their choice whether they take the matter to a sharia or civil court to decide, but the sharia court's judgment will not normally have any legal force unless it's part of a previously-agreed arbitration process, and even then it wouldn't be enforceable if it's incompatible with regular UK civil law.

Voluntary arbitration procedures like this may or may not be desirable, but British civil courts will always encourage litigants in civil matters to reach a mutually acceptable settlement rather than go through the expensive process of asking a civil court to decide what the civil law says is the default settlement without reference to any particular circumstances of the case, and with which none of the parties may be satisfied. The civil courts don't address the question of whether someone *should* have cut their relatives out of the will and left the bulk of their estate to a trust set up to care for their pet cats, only whether the law permitted them so to do.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Socialist Case for Rearmament

MI6 and the UK military are ringing alarm bells. Listen and act

htsf.substack.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Greta Thunberg has been arrested at a demonstration in support of the Palestine Action protesters who are on hunger strike in prison, according to the Prisoners for Palestine protest group.

The 22-year-old activist was detained in the City of London after attending the scene of the early-morning demonstration on Fenchurch Street.

In a video shared by the group, she could be seen holding a sign reading "I support the Palestine Action prisoners" and "I oppose genocide".

City of London Police said a 22-year-old woman was arrested for displaying a placard in support of a proscribed organisation, in this case Palestine Action, contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

[...]

Palestine Action was proscribed under UK terrorism legislation earlier this year, making it a criminal offence to support or express support for the group.

Police said inquiries were continuing.

Ms Thunberg, who first came to prominence as a child climate activist, has been involved in several demonstrations in support of the Palestinian cause.

She described the activists on hunger strike as "political prisoners" in a video posted on her Instagram on Monday, adding the UK government should meet their demands to be released from custody and for charges to be dropped.

Greta Thunberg arrested over Palestine Action placard

Greta Thunberg is arrested in central London on suspicion of supporting a proscribed organisation.

www.bbc.com

 

[Free]

Lest we forget, Donald Trump is not the only other co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein.

Email from ‘A’ at British royal family’s residence asked Ghislaine Maxwell for ‘inappropriate friends’

A person identified as “A” emailed the disgraced former British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell from the British royal family’s Scottish residence in 2001, asking whether she had “found me some new inappropriate friends,” according to newly released documents.

The email is part of a series of messages exchanged in 2001 and 2002 between Maxwell and someone using the email alias “The Invisible Man,” contained in a trove of files released Tuesday by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The emails are signed “A.”

The writer is not explicitly identified as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, but the former prince was introduced to Epstein in 1999 by Maxwell, Epstein’s then-girlfriend and now a convicted sex offender. Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.

Important insertion to the story:

None of the emails suggest any wrongdoing.

Uh huh.

 

[Ellie]

Still rearing its ugly head.

Nichola Arch, a former post office operator who was wrongly accused of stealing £26,000 from the Post Office, also attended the meeting. She said: “While they’re taking money from the Post Office, they won’t win our trust, and nothing the museum will do will change that.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/26/post-office-scandal-victims-exhibition-postal-museum-pr-stunt

At least Sir Alan Bates got his settlement, but

About 3,200 compensation claims remain outstanding.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/04/sir-alan-bates-settlement-post-office-scandal

 

[Isabeau]

Iain Roberts (@slowbikeiain.bsky.social)

London in the good old days - before everyone's feet pointed forwards.

bsky.app

 

[Free]

Obviously, Britain stopped being one of the "most beautiful, clean and safest places in Britain" after they stopped driving on the "correct" side of the road.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Tommy Robinson calls on United States to invade UK after Venezuela attack

TOMMY Robinson has called on Donald Trump to invade and “free” the UK from the “tyrannical dictator” Keir Starmer following the United…

www.thenational.scot

 

[Free]

Tommy Robinson calls on United States to invade UK after Venezuela attack

TOMMY Robinson has called on Donald Trump to invade and “free” the UK from the “tyrannical dictator” Keir Starmer following the United…

www.thenational.scot

 

[Free]

Posting in this thread because no one uses that word in the U.S.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Why we must defend the BBC from Trump

The White House is running an extortion racket

nickcohen.substack.com

as things stand, the BBC won’t give a crime boss our money and they deserve our applause.

Evernote Link

 

[Cat Fratica]

Posting in this thread because no one uses that word in the U.S.

nonce
noun
derogatory•informal
noun: nonce; plural noun: nonces

1. a person convicted of a sexual offense, especially child molesting.
   "every girl he meets soon gets a phone call warning them he's a nonce"

 

[Free]

nonce
noun

I said we don't use it, not that I don't know what it means.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I said we don't use it, not that I don't know what it means.

It's originally prison slang for a sex offender (rapists as well as pedophiles), and highly derogatory, of course. Out of interest, what is the US equivalent prison slang term? I'm guessing there must be one.

 

[Spirits Rising]

It's originally prison slang for a sex offender (rapists as well as pedophiles), and highly derogatory, of course. Out of interest, what is the US equivalent prison slang term? I'm guessing there must be one.

Dead man/woman walking.

The inmates tend to rather violently detest such individuals.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

It's originally prison slang for a sex offender (rapists as well as pedophiles), and highly derogatory, of course. Out of interest, what is the US equivalent prison slang term? I'm guessing there must be one.

"Short-eyes" is one I've heard about, but I think there's a few.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

It's originally prison slang for a sex offender (rapists as well as pedophiles), and highly derogatory, of course. Out of interest, what is the US equivalent prison slang term? I'm guessing there must be one.

Child molesters are referred to as "chomo" around here. They tend to be extremely unpopular in prisons.

As for sex offenders in general, I don't know how they're referred.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Child molesters are referred to as "chomo" around here. They tend to be extremely unpopular in prisons.

As for sex offenders in general, I don't know how they're referred.

I've seen 'chickenhawk' for rapist but that's taken on a different meaning in recent decades.

Canadian prison term for child molester is 'goof' which can cause some international misunderstandings.

 

[Free]

It's originally prison slang for a sex offender (rapists as well as pedophiles), and highly derogatory, of course.

It's also thought to be related to "nancyboy," i.e. a homosexual. Showing how gays are always tied into this shit.

Out of interest, what is the US equivalent prison slang term? I'm guessing there must be one.

Along with the one Katheryne mentioned, I've heard of "diaper sniper."